lo-budget Fantasy Road Trip competition

This FANTASY ROAD TRIP CONTEST is so freaking cool that if I were less mature I would be in a total snit at my books not being part of it (not that they would be anyway, as they are not published by Random House. Oh, no, wait - Bantam is part of Random House, isn't it? Well, howbout they are not bestselling YA fantasy series? There, feeling better now).

Tell you what: I'll make it easy for you. Just type in a few lines of dialogue from the video you *would* make if they were in the Fantasy Roadtrip Contest. Pick any book I've written. Do not mention audiobooks (unless dismissively, as there are none. And, no, I can't tell my publisher to make one. It doesn't work that way). Refer to Florida only if you must.

In return, I will not post your entry on YouTube. Nor will I give you an iPod.

How's that?

(But do check out the original contest - especially the divine libba_bray's message to you - no, better yet, read her LJ post on this. I love her posts.)

Terri Windling & Interfictions

I just made my (tax-deductible) contribution to Interfictions 2, the forthcoming original anthology from the IAF. They offered a space to make your donation "in honor of" or "in memory of," and I decided to make mine in honor of Terri Windling, for her great editorial & visionary contributions to interstitial fiction over the years - especially with her 16 years of co-editing THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY IN HORROR. In those collections, she constantly made bold choices that were not standard genre fare. She opened us all up to a wide range of styles and visions, international & sometimes radical: Kelly Link, Pagan Kennedy, Osamu Dasai, Rosario Ferré . . . .. She took a flack for it in some quarters, too. "This stuff isn't fantasy!" critics objected. It sure wasn't commercial genre fantasy. But it was fantastical, and fantastic. And an entire generation of writers grew up reading it, and being told that it was all right to stretch the boundaries of genre until it became something new.

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Donations of $200+ will be guaranteed a space on the printed Donors Page in the actual book, if we receive them by tomorrow. (Don't be thrown by the text on the donations form saying it has to be $375; that just needs updating!) Donations of any size, at any time from now through November, will be listed on our online Thank You page, along with a link to your preferred website.

You can make your own contribution here. Dedicate it to someone who's made a difference to you.

sell us your iPhones?

Need to buy iPhones before leave for Worldcon on Thursday (long story). AT&T requires 2-yr service contract if we buy theirs - but if we BUY YOUR USED iPHONE (because you just upgraded, you techdog, you), thus "providing our own equipment," they'll give us a month-by-month contract.

Sweet? Or not?

I am but a babe in these woods.